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Later Thursday, the Redding Chamber of Commerce and Viva Downtown hosted a wrecking ball party at the north end of the Promenade to celebrate the demolition.

The old Dicker’s store is being torn down to make room for a $38 million, four-story, mixed-use building that will house apartments, retail and office space. The project also will reopen Market, Yuba and Butte streets through the Promenade.

Construction is expected to last more than a year and the building could be occupied in March 2020.

The Dicker’s department relocated downtown to The Mall in 1973 and was the 27th store to open in the roofed shopping center. Dicker’s closed in 1992, ending a nearly 50-year run for the family-operated business.